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                <p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">You can apply a filter on the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Rich Text Format Report</span><span class="f_BodyText"> dialog to include or exclude elements by date modified, phase or status. This helps to track changes and break a document into multiple delivery phases.</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Open the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Rich Text Format Report</span><span class="f_BodyText"> dialog (see </span><span class="f_BodyText" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="documentingyourproject.htm">The Legacy RTF Report Generator</a></span><span class="f_BodyText"> for how to do this). The </span><span class="f_UIControl">Filter</span><span class="f_BodyText"> section of this dialog is shown below.</span></p>
<p class="p_TextIndentedL2"><img src="rtffilter.png" width="388" height="98" border="0" alt="RTFFilter"></p>
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<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1">To enable the date filter, select the checkbox in the date field.</span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1">In the first two </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Only include objects</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"> fields, click on the drop-down arrows and select the appropriate criteria (</span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Modified/Created</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1">, </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Before/After</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1">).</span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1">The package phase filter applies at the package level (not the element level) and ignores the phase of the root package that you are documenting. To enable the phase filter, in the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Where Package Phase</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"> field click on the drop-down arrow and select an operator; Enterprise Architect filters out all packages that do not meet the selection criteria. All elements in the package are ignored, regardless of their individual phase.</span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1">The element status filter enables you to limit the output by element status. Unlike the package phase filter, this filter applies to every element. You can filter against a status of </span><span class="f_Bulletlist1" style="font-style: italic;">like</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"> or </span><span class="f_Bulletlist1" style="font-style: italic;">unlike</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"> a criterion, e.g. </span><span class="f_Bulletlist1" style="font-style: italic;">like proposed,</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"> or against the</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1" style="font-style: italic;"> in</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"> and </span><span class="f_Bulletlist1" style="font-style: italic;">not in</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"> operators, e.g. </span><span class="f_Bulletlist1" style="font-style: italic;">in approved</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1">, </span><span class="f_Bulletlist1" style="font-style: italic;">not in validated</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1">. When using the </span><span class="f_Bulletlist1" style="font-style: italic;">in</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"> and </span><span class="f_Bulletlist1" style="font-style: italic;">not in</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"> operators, enter a comma-separated list of status types as your criteria expression.</span></li>
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